Since 10 months I've been lurking around on a website called All Poetry picking up myriad forms and styles of writing poems. I had accidentally landed on the site following a link on someones Facebook profile, from then on as they say there was no looking back. :P
Learned a lot of Asian and Western forms of poetry there, it was pretty surprising for me to see the westerners using the Ghazal form for English poetry writing.
Form poetry is challenging yet enjoyable because it makes you fell triumphant at the end.
So, my latest in form is the Sevenling. I won't get into the finer details of it (least you start to get bored) but it is made of three stanzas, the last one being a one liner. The first two stanzas do not need to relate to each other directly, the final stanza/line acts as either a narrative summary, a punch line, or an unusual juxtaposition of them. And yeah, Sevenlings are not titled.
Here's mine.
She wrote love notes
Amidst the clinking of glass bangles,
The kohl in her eyes glistening brighter.
He shuffled through papers
With a steaming cup of coffee
And a half burnt cigarette between lips.
Love had yet to conquer indifference.
Learned a lot of Asian and Western forms of poetry there, it was pretty surprising for me to see the westerners using the Ghazal form for English poetry writing.
Form poetry is challenging yet enjoyable because it makes you fell triumphant at the end.
So, my latest in form is the Sevenling. I won't get into the finer details of it (least you start to get bored) but it is made of three stanzas, the last one being a one liner. The first two stanzas do not need to relate to each other directly, the final stanza/line acts as either a narrative summary, a punch line, or an unusual juxtaposition of them. And yeah, Sevenlings are not titled.
Here's mine.
She wrote love notes
Amidst the clinking of glass bangles,
The kohl in her eyes glistening brighter.
He shuffled through papers
With a steaming cup of coffee
And a half burnt cigarette between lips.
Love had yet to conquer indifference.
The first two stanzas don't connect wit each other directly as u said but some where down the lane they meet .The last line speaks evrythng......
ReplyDeleteReally nice!
ReplyDeleteas Manasa said, they do connect indirectly and conclude up in the last line nicely!